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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Name:STABLE BLOCK EAST OF LOWTHER CASTLE

List entry Number:1145326

Location

STABLE BLOCK EAST OF LOWTHER CASTLE

The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County

District

District Type

Parish

Cumbria

Eden

District Authority

Lowther

National Park: LAKE DISTRICT

Grade:II*

Date first listed: 06-Feb-1968

Date of most recent amendment:Not applicable to this List entry.

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Legacy System:LBS

UID:74346

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Details

NY 52 SW LOWTHER LOWTHER

12/138 Stable block east of
Lowther Castle
6.2.68

GV II*

Stables and Coach house adjoining Lowther Castle. 1806-9 by Sir Robert Smirke
for 1st Earl of Lonsdale. Calciferous sandstone ashlar with string courses and
battlemented parapets. Graduated greenslate roofs, partly hipped. Buildings on
3 sides of courtyard. Rear 2-storey, 7-bay coach house has ground-floor
segmental arches under 2-light stone-mullioned windows with hoodmoulds.
Battlemented parapet rises in centre with clock face and Lowther arms. Right
single-storey, 4-bay quadrant link and left similar 2-storey link, have central
segmental arch and sash windows under hoodmoulds. Left 2-storey, 9-bay stables
has 7 recessed bays with flanking rectangular battlemented turrets. Central
segmental arch and sash windows under hoodmoulds. Turrets have rounded-arched
windows. Right domestic/stable range is similar to the left range opposite, but
with angle turrets on projecting bays, that to right forming part of the return
wall of the castle facade. The Household Accounts of the Earl of Lonsdale in
the County Record Office, Carlisle, record payment on 30 June 1806, to William
Bayles & Co, of £10. 2s. 6d. "for removing 405 yards of earth previous to laying
foundations for new stables, coach houses, etc". Graded for group value with
Lowther Castle.

Listing NGR: NY5229823825

Selected Sources

OtherRegister of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 9 Cumbria,

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